Healthcare Finance Staff

GAO’s care report outlines need for more investigation The Government Accountability Office’s recent report on long-term care partnership programs in four states outline...

Workplace options unveils increased risk HRA Workplace Options, a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of work-life employee benefits, is unveiling a health risk assessment (HRA) to hel...

MINNEAPOLIS – It never hurts to have good advice. That’s the thinking that officials at Ingenix, a Minneapolis-based health information technology firm, employed i...

DALLAS – Physicians in small- to medium-sized practices are hesitant to embrace information technology, often because they think new solutions are too expensive and/or complicated to install...

Contributed by John R. Boettiger and Jennifer Harris Smith Valuation professionals are frequently retained to help clients evaluate whether physician compensation agreements adhere to st...

AHA weighs in on rehab facility PPS, 75 percent rule The American Hospital Association is urging regulatory action on the “75 percent rule” in the proposed rule for th...

MALVERN, PA – In an effort to reduce the tens of billions of dollars lost each year in medical fraud and billing errors, Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced a “smart card”...

PSS World Medical, Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla. has announced that it has made a $22.5 million equity investment, approximately 5 percent of current outstanding shares, in athen...

Call center experience could cost customers A recent study showed that 61 percent of customers who have a bad experience with a call center of an insurance company are at risk of...

Contributed by Ron Rittenmeyer The power in technology is not the technology itself. The power in technology is taking your business and making it better than anyone could have ever conside...